Mark Mangino
Mangino at a 2007 Kansas Jayhawks basketball game
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	(1956-08-26)August 26, 1956 New Castle, Pennsylvania
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1987 1988-1989 1991–1998 1999 2000–2001 2002–2009	Youngstown State (assistant) Geneva (assistant) Kansas State (assistant) Oklahoma (OL) Oklahoma (OC) Kansas
Head coaching record
Overall	50–48
Bowls	3–1
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 1 Big 12 North Division (2007)
Awards Frank Broyles Award (2000) AFCA Coach of the Year (2007)[1] AP Coach of the Year (2007)[2] Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2007)[3] George Munger Award (2007)[4] The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2007)[5] Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2007)[6] Sporting News Coach of the Year (2007) Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2007)[7] Woody Hayes Coach of the Year (2007)[6] Big 12 Coach of the Year (2007)[8]

Mark Thomas Mangino (August 26, 1956) is an American football coach. He was most recently the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks college football team from 2002 to 2009. In 2007, Mangino received several National Coach of the Year honors after leading the Jayhawks to their first 12-win season in school history. Prior to coaching the Jayhawks, Mangino served assistant positions at Kansas State and Oklahoma. On December 3, 2009, after allegations of verbal and physical player abuse, Mangino and the Jayhawks agreed on a settlement in which he resigned from his position as head coach.

Early life[link]

Mangino was born and raised in New Castle, Pennsylvania. After high school, he was offered a football scholarship at Youngstown State. Mangino played semi-pro baseball in western Pennsylvania until he became an EMT. In his late 20's he returned to Youngstown State to receive his degree.^[9]

Coaching career[link]

Early positions[link]

Mangino graduated from Youngstown State University in 1987, serving as an assistant coach there in his last two years under then-head coach Jim Tressel. He also coached at Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania and at Geneva College, before being hired as an assistant coach at Kansas State University in 1991. Prior to the 1999 season, Mangino left Kansas State to take an assistant position at the University of Oklahoma. While there, he served as the offensive coordinator for the team that beat Florida State for the 2000 national championship. Following that season, he was awarded the Frank Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach.

Kansas[link]

Mangino was hired as Kansas head football coach in December 2001. The program had not posted a winning season in any of the 6 seasons prior to his arrival. In 2003, his second season at KU, Mangino led the Jayhawks to an appearance in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl (now known as the Champs Sports Bowl). This was the first bowl appearance for Kansas since 1995. In 2005, his fourth season at KU, the team finished the regular season 6–5, to post its first winning record under Mangino, and went on to the Fort Worth Bowl, its second bowl game in three seasons. Among the Jayhawks' wins was a 40-15 victory over Nebraska, breaking a losing streak that had begun in 1969, which was the second-longest such streak of consecutive losses in NCAA history. The same year Mangino also built a defense that ranked 11th nationally (based on yards allowed per game) and featured third-team All-American and Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year linebacker Nick Reid. The 2005 team also ranked 6th nationally in total punts. In 2007, Mangino coached the Jayhawks to a 12-1 record and the 2008 Orange Bowl (their first ever BCS appearance). Mangino's defense was ranked 12th in the nation, and 4th in scoring defense. On the other side of the ball, the Jayhawks finished 2nd in scoring offense.^[10]

Following the win against the Iowa State Cyclones, Mark Mangino became the first KU football coach with a winning career record since Jack Mitchell in 1966. While at Kansas, Mangino led the Jayhawks to 19 consecutive weeks ranked in the AP and/or USA Today polls (2007–08), 20 consecutive wins in a 2 year period for the first time in school history, set home attendance average records in each of the last 4 seasons (2004–2008), led KU to its first appearance in national polls since 1996 and to the school’s highest ranking ever at #2, produced the top 3 total offense seasons in school history, the top two passing seasons and two of the top three scoring seasons and won three Bowl games—the same number they had won in their 102-year history combined prior to his arrival.

With 50 victories, Mangino has the second-most victories in Kansas coaching history.

2007 Coach of the Year awards[link]

For his accomplishments in 2007, he was named the 2007 National Coach of the Year by the Associated Press,^[11] ESPN/ABC,^[5] The Sporting News, Football Writers Association,^[3] Walter Camp Football Foundation,^[7] National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association,^[6] American Football Coaches Association, the Maxwell Football Club (George Munger Award),^[4] and he has been named the Woody Hayes National Coach of the Year.^[12] He was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year by the Big 12 Coaches and Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year by the Associated Press. Upon winning these Coach of the Year awards, he became the only NCAA coach in history to win both the Frank Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach and all the major National Coach of the Year awards.^[13]

Player successes[link]

Mangino has coached numerous players who have won honors including Heisman Trophy winner Jason White, Heisman runners-up Josh Heupel and Michael Bishop, and Outland Trophy winner Jammal Brown. Mangino has coached 32 NFL players, 73 All-Big 12 players, and two players named "Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year." Over 20 of his former players are now coaching.

"Character First"[link]

Mangino implemented many programs while at Kansas but none more beneficial than his "Character First" program.^[14][15] Designed by Dr. Frank DeSalvo, Dean of Students at Kansas and a clinical social worker, the program involved: 1) Community service in nursing homes, Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Boys and Girls Club 2) Visits to local schools 3) Informational sessions from law enforcement about drugs, crime and sexual assault and issues that get football players at some programs in trouble 4) Motivational and guest speakers such as Danny Manning, the head of player personnel for the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team, among others.

Advanced cardiac screenings[link]

Under the guidance of Mangino, Kansas was one of the first college football programs to do advanced cardiac screenings on its players to detect life threatening conditions,^[16] probably saving the life of one player who was found to have a life threatening condition.

Controversy[link]

Lincoln High controversy[link]

After going 1-9 in his first season as the head coach of Lincoln High in Ellwood City, PA, a group of parents went to the school board and demanded his firing because of his "language, and harsh approach to people". The board elected not to fire Mangino, but he left the school after only one year and did not complete the year as a teacher.^[17]

High school referee incident[link]

On September 21, 2002, Coach Mangino yelled at the officiating crew assigned to the Lawrence High School–Olathe East football game in which Mangino's son, Tommy, was playing. Mangino apparently became angry after referees failed to call what he believed was a late hit on Tommy, the LHS quarterback.

LHS officials took undisclosed action against Mangino after the game for violating a Kansas High School rule barring abuse of game officials by coaches, players and fans.^[18]

2004 Kansas–Texas game[link]

In 2004, Mangino paid a $5,000 fine for suggesting that officials acted with favoritism in a questionable offensive pass interference call that affected the outcome of a game against Texas. Mangino implied that money and a BCS berth for the Big 12 Conference influenced the officials to make a call in favor of Texas.^[19] He and athletic director Lew Perkins issued public apologies the day after the incident.

NCAA penalties and probation[link]

In 2005, the Jayhawks self-reported five NCAA major violations including academic fraud had been committed by members of the Jayhawk football program under Mark Mangino.^[20] In 2006, these major violations, along with four others from other sports contributed to the NCAA charging the Kansas University Athletics with "lack of institutional control". A graduate assistant was found to have supplied answers to correspondence courses being taken by potential athletes. As a result, the football team was limited for two years in its recruitment of junior college transfers, and lost two scholarships for each of the 2007 and 2008 seasons.

Internal investigations[link]

A separate investigation was conducted in 2007 related to the coach's repeated parking tickets on campus and his verbal abuse and general behavior toward some of the campus staff that issued those tickets.^[21]

In November 2009, Mangino's conduct toward his players became the subject of an internal investigation by the University of Kansas Athletic Department. The coach was accused of boorish and violent actions including grabbing players, verbal abuse, and other causes of concern.^[22] This led to his subsequent resignation in December.

Head coaching record[link]

Sources:^[23][24]

Note: While officially recognized as 2007 divisional co-champions by the Big 12, the Jayhawks lost the tie-breaker to Missouri, giving the Tigers the championship game berth.

Record against conference opponents[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kansas profile

Walter Camp
Camp in 1910
Sport(s)	Football
Biographical details
Born	(1859-04-07)April 7, 1859 New Britain, Connecticut
Died	March 14, 1925(1925-03-14) (aged 65) New York, New York
Playing career
1876–1882	Yale
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1888–1892 1892, 1894–1895	Yale Stanford
Head coaching record
Overall	79–5–3
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 3 National (1888, 1891–1892)
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1951 (profile)

Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football. He played college football at Yale College from 1876 to 1882. Camp served as the head football coach at Yale from 1888 to 1892 before moving to Stanford University, where he coached in December 1892 and in 1894 and 1895. Camp's Yale teams of 1888, 1891, and 1892 have been recognized as national champions. Camp was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.

Life[link]

Camp was born in the city of New Britain, Connecticut, the son of Leverett Lee and Ellen Sophia (Cornwell) Camp. He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, entered Yale College in 1876, and graduated in 1880. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Skull and Bones.^[1] He attended Yale Medical School, where his studies were interrupted first by an outbreak of typhoid fever and then by work for the Manhattan Watch Company. He worked for the New Haven Clock Company beginning in 1883, working his way up to chairman of the board of directors.^[1]

On June 30, 1888, Camp married Alice Graham Sumner, sister of William Graham Sumner. They had two children: Walter Camp, Jr. (born 1891) who attended Yale as well and was elected as a member of Scroll and Key in 1912, and Janet Camp Troxell (born 1897).^[2]

Rules committee[link]

Camp as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Camp was on the various collegiate football rules committees that developed the American game from his time as a player at Yale until his death. He is credited with innovations such as the snap-back from center, the system of downs, and the points system, as well as the introduction of the now-standard offensive arrangement of players (a seven-man offensive line and a four-man backfield consisting of a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback). Camp was also responsible for introducing the "safety", the awarding of two points to the defensive side for tackling a ball carrier in his own end zone followed by a free kick by the offense from its own 20-yard line (to change possession). This is significant, as rugby union has no point value award for this action, but instead awards a scrum to the attacking side five meters from the goal line and Rugby League awards the defense by receiving a drop out on the goal line by the team caught inside their goal area.

In 2011, reviewing Camp's role in the founding of the sport and of the NCAA, Taylor Branch also credited Camp with cutting the number of players on a football team from 15 to 11 and adding measuring lines to the field. However, Branch noted that the revelation in a contemporaneous McClure's magazine story of "Camp's $100,000 slush fund", along with concern about the violence of the growing sport (25 college players killed during the 1905 football season), helped lead to President Theodore Roosevelt's intervention in the sport. The NCAA emerged out of the national talks but worked to Yale's disadvantage relative to rival (and Roosevelt's alma mater) Harvard, according to Branch.^[3]

Writing[link]

Despite having a full-time job at the New Haven Clock Company (A Camp Family Business) and being an unpaid yet very involved adviser to the Yale football team, Camp wrote articles and books on gridiron and also on sports in general. By the time of his death, he had written nearly 30 books and more than 250 magazine articles. His articles appeared in national periodicals such as Harper's Weekly, Collier's, Outing, Outlook, and The Independent, and in juvenile magazines such as St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion, and Boys' Magazine. His stories also appeared in major daily newspapers throughout the United States. He also selected an annual "All-American" team. According to his biographer, Richard P. Borkowski, "Camp was instrumental through writing and lecturing in attaching an almost mythical atmosphere of manliness and heroism to the game not previously known in American team sports."

By the age of 33, twelve years after graduating from Yale, Walter Camp had already become known as the "Father of American Football". In a column in the popular magazine Harper's Weekly, sports columnist Caspar Whitney had applied the nickname; the sobriquet was appropriate because, by 1892, Camp had almost single-handedly fashioned the game of modern American football.

The Daily Dozen exercise regimen[link]

Camp was a proponent of exercise, and not just for the athletes he coached. While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I, he devised a program to help servicemen become more physically fit.

Walter Camp has just developed for the Naval Commission on Training Camp Activities a "short hand" system of setting up exercises that seems to fill the bill; a system designed to give a man a running jump start for the serious work of the day. It is called the "daily dozen set-up," meaning thereby twelve very simple exercises.^[4]

Both the Army and the Navy used Camp's methods.^[5]

The names of the exercises in the original Daily Dozen, as the whole set became known, were hands, grind, crawl, wave, hips, grate, curl, weave, head, grasp, crouch, and wing. As the name indicates, there were twelve exercises, and they could be completed in about eight minutes.^[6] A prolific writer, Camp wrote a book explaining the exercises and extolling their benefits. During the 1920s, a number of newspapers and magazines used the term "Daily Dozen" to refer to exercise in general.^[7]

Starting in 1921 with the Musical Health Builder record sets, Camp began offering morning setting-up exercises to a wider market.^[8] In 1922, the initiative reached the new medium of radio.^{[citation needed]}

Head coaching record[link]

Camp as Yale's captain in 1878

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Ronald A. Smith, Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, (1990)
• "Walter Camp Found All-American Eleven Selections and Originated the Daily Dozen." New York Times, March 15, 1925. p. 1.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Walter Camp

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Walter Camp

• Walter Camp at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Walter Camp at the College Football Data Warehouse
• Works by Walter Camp at Project Gutenberg
• Walter Camp at Find a Grave
• Walter Camp (1912). Condensed auction for the busy man. NY: Platt & Peck. http://www.archive.org/stream/condensedauctio00campgoog. 

James Phillip Rome (born on October 14, 1964), known as Jim Rome, is an American sports radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications.

Broadcasting from a studio near Los Angeles, California, Rome hosts The Jim Rome Show on radio. For a number of years Rome hosted a television show Jim Rome Is Burning (formerly Rome Is Burning), which aired on ESPN in the United States and TSN2 in Canada. In 2011, Rome ended his relationship with ESPN to join the CBS network where it is reported he will host his own show, as well as an interview-format show on the Showtime channel.^[1] His past hosting jobs included sports discussion television shows Talk2 (ESPN2), The FX Sports Show (FX), and The Last Word (Fox Sports Net). The Jim Rome Show is tied for the #21 most listened to talk radio show in the United States ^[2] and Rome is the #29 most influential talk radio personality^[3] according to Talkers Magazine.

Born in Tarzana, California, Rome graduated from Calabasas High School in 1982^[4] and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a degree in Communications in 1987.^[5][6] He lives in Irvine, California with his wife Janet and their two children.^[5]